Intel have reportedly moved up the launch of Skylake-X and Coffee Lake

Intel have reportedly moved up the launch of Skylake-X and Coffee Lake

Intel have reportedly moved up the launch of Skylake-X and Coffee Lake

Intel has reportedly moved up the launch of Skylake-X and Coffee Lake, with plans to launch X299 at Computex.

According to Digitimes' sources in Taiwan, Skylake-X will be launched two months earlier than expected, with Coffee Lake coming in August 2017 instead of January 2018, attributing this early launch to the competitiveness of AMD's new Ryzen architecture.

Both of these new CPU architectures will be based on Intel's latest 14nm processing node, with Intel planning to accelerate the development and production capability of their upcoming 2nd generation 10nm manufacturing process.

These new reports line up with previous rumours that Intel was moving up the launch of their Skylake-X launch, though these rumours made no mention of Intel's Coffee Lake series of CPUs.

Intel's Skylake-X series of CPUs will come with between six and ten CPU cores, with support for quad-channel DDR4 2667MHz memory out of the box, which is an improvement over Broadwell-E's support of quad-channel 2400MHz memory. Hopefully, this will allow Skylake-X to support higher memory speeds though overclocking, allowing speeds of 3200MHz and over to easily be supported.

Kaby-Lake X will be coming in quad-core models, with TDPs of 112W and no iGPU components, this CPU will be limited to dual-channel memory support and up to 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU.

At this time the exact clock speeds of Intel's upcoming X299 CPUs are unknown, though they are likely to be higher than Intel's current Broadwell-E offerings.

The largest changes that Skylake-X will offer is an increase in motherboard/platform features, supporting more PCIe lanes through the chipset and their DMI interface, like Intel's current Z170 and Z270 motherboard offerings.

But with this Ryzen launch I hope Intel will have lower price for 6900K replacement. I am aiming for a nice music production rig this year, and 6900K is perfect for what i need but the price is just off. Unlike for other production stuff Ryzen is miles behind Intel for music. Current price for X CPUs is ridiculous. Yes 6900K is better than 6850K, but it is not 350€ better.Quote

Register for the OC3D Newsletter

Subscribing to the OC3D newsletter will keep you up-to-date
on the latest technology reviews, competitions and goings-on at Overclock3D.
We won't share your email address with ANYONE, and we will only email you with updates on site news, reviews, and competitions and you can unsubscribe easily at any time.

Simply enter your name and email address into the box below and be sure to click on the links in the
confirmation emails that will arrive in your e-mail shortly after to complete the registration.